{"id":55710,"date":"2016-06-16T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=55710"},"modified":"2016-06-16T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:26:36","slug":"further-changes-in-the-higher-ed-landscape-feds-propose-decertifying-accreditor-of-for-profit-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/06\/16\/further-changes-in-the-higher-ed-landscape-feds-propose-decertifying-accreditor-of-for-profit-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Further changes in the higher ed landscape: &#8220;Feds propose decertifying accreditor of for-profit colleges&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/feds-propose-decertifying-accreditor-of-for-profit-colleges-1466005874\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Feds propose decertifying accreditor of for-profit colleges<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wsj.com by Douglas Belkin<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Education Department on Wednesday recommended that the organization that accredits many of the nation\u2019s for-profit colleges and vocational schools shouldn\u2019t be recognized, a step that could threaten access to nearly $5 billion in federal financial aid for more than 800,000 students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The decision also has the potential to hasten the consolidation of the for-profit college sector as it could drive out of business many schools that lose access to student loans as well as students leery of attending schools under the regulatory microscope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The move could mean the sector, already in decline amid tightening federal regulation, \u201cwill implode even faster,\u201d<\/span> said Trace Urdan, managing director at Credit Suisse and a longtime analyst of the for-profit college industry. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cThere will be significant consolidation ahead, a lot of people will lose their jobs, there will be fewer choices in the market but the schools that do survive will have a sort of double bonus, a clean bill of health and less competition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feds propose decertifying accreditor of for-profit colleges &#8212; from wsj.com by Douglas Belkin Excerpt: The Education Department on Wednesday recommended that the organization that accredits many of the nation\u2019s for-profit colleges and vocational schools shouldn\u2019t be recognized, a step that could threaten access to nearly $5 billion in federal financial aid for more than 800,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,86,115,3,285,66,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accreditation","category-change","category-colleges","category-higher-education","category-legislation-legislatures","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55711,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55710\/revisions\/55711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}